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Edoardo Peruzzi
(2025):
The Transfer of Game-Theoretic Models: Formal Templates, Unification, and Scientific Progress.,
GWP.2025 Conference, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Description:
<p>The presentation examined the transfer of game-theoretic models by advancing two central claims. First, it was argued that such transfer occurred through the gradual design and accumulation of formal templates employed in model construction — a process described as <em>formal template accumulation</em>. Second, while this process was not considered to constitute scientific progress in itself, it was shown to play a contributory role in enabling or supporting such progress.</p>
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Murat Bakeev
(2025):
Methodological Barriers to Model Transfer and Their Mitigation: The Case of Agent-Based Models in Macroeconomics,
GWP.2025 Conference, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Description:
<p>The presentation addressed the methodological challenges associated with transferring models across scientific domains, with a focus on the case of agent-based models in macroeconomics. It was argued that such transfers often encounter obstacles due to divergent methodological standards between source and target disciplines. The concept of <em>methodological embedding </em>— defined as the minimization of the semantic and/or syntactic distance between a transferred model’s construction assumptions and the methodological commitments of the target field — was proposed as a potential strategy to mitigate these challenges. However, it was noted that this strategy may sometimes compromise the epistemic function of models, giving rise to a dilemma: either the embedded model is dismissed as epistemically ineffective, or the non-embedded model is rejected for lacking methodological adequacy.</p>
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Edoardo Peruzzi
(2025):
Model Transfer in Economics,
Research Colloquium, Faculty of Economics and Management, Leibniz University Hannover.
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Catherine Herfeld
(2024):
Challenges to model transfer in science (poster presentation),
PSA 2024 - 29th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association in New Orleans, USA
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Murat Bakeev
(2024):
Challenges to Model Transfer: The Case of Agent-Based Models (Poster),
PSA 2024 - 29th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (New Orleans, USA).
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Edoardo Peruzzi
(2024):
Formal Template Accumulation and Scientific Progress: The Case of Bayesian Games,
PSA2024 – 29th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, New Orleans, USA.
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Edoardo Peruzzi
(2024):
The Transfer of Economic Models into the Courtrooom: A Failed Promise?,
Research Seminars MInD, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy.
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Catherine Herfeld
(2024):
Model Transfer in the Recent History of Economics: The Case of Rational Choice Models (invited),
Lunch Seminar at Center for the History of Political Economy (Duke University).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2024):
Challenges to Model Transfer in Science,
The German Congress for Philosophy XXVI (Münster, Germany).
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Murat Bakeev, Catherine Herfeld and Edoardo Peruzzi
(2024):
Model Transfer in the Age of AI: The Case of Foundation Models,
Online Workshop “Researching Model Transfer: Brainstorming Cases, Arguments, and Research Questions”, Hannover, Germany.
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Catherine Herfeld
(2024):
Model transfer in the history of science: The case of game theory (invited),
History of Science Research Colloquium (LMU Munich).
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Murat Bakeev
(2024):
Tractability in Model Transfer: Motivation or Barrier?,
The German Congress for Philosophy XXVI (Münster, Germany).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2024):
Model transfer in science (invited),
Philosophy and History of Science Research Colloquium (Technical University Berlin).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2024):
Studying model transfer in science (invited),
Research Colloquium for Philosophy and History of Science (Ruhr-University Bochum).
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Murat Bakeev
(2024):
The Requirement of Theoretical Tractability as a Challenge to Model Transfer,
Third Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics (Como, Italy).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2024):
Is science useful for philosophy? The case of studying model transfer. (invited),
Conference 'Is Philosophy Useful for Science and/or Vice versa?' (Chapman University).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
Crossing domains: The role of the translator in model transfer (invited),
Online Workshop 'Epistemic Transfer' at Society for the History of the Humanities.
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
Progress in economics (with Marcel Boumans) (invited),
Forums for Interdisciplinary Dialogue (University of Helsinki).
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Catherine Herfeld, Erik Angner, Francesco Guala, Don Ross, and Jack Vromen
(2023):
Book Symposium on 'How Economics Can Save the World',
INEM Conference, University of Venice.
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
The roles of scientific contributions in the transfer of knowledge: Some methodological reflections (invited),
Workshop 'Modelling Knowledge and Evolution of Science' (Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
What empirical network analysis can do for philosophy of science: The case of model transfer (invited),
Symposium on 'Framing Digital Philosophy of Science' at EPSA23 in Belgrade.
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
Bibliometric methods in philosophy of science (invited),
Online Workshop on Methods in Philosophy of Science (University of Exeter/University of Vienna).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
What empirical network analysis can do for philosophy of science: The case of model transfer,
Institute of Philosophy (Leibniz University of Hannover).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
Empirische Netzwerkanalyse als eine Methode der Wissenschaftsphilosophie (invited),
Philosophy Department (University of Mainz).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
Studying model transfer in science (invited),
Social Networks Lab (ETH Zürich).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
What empirical network analysis can do for philosophy of science: The case of model transfer (invited),
Conference on 'Big Data and the History and Philosophy of Science' (University of Toronto).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
Wie entsteht Neues? Potentiale und Herausforderungen von Modelltransfer in der Wissenschaft (invited),
Interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung 'Wie entsteht Neues?' (University of Zurich).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
Progress in economics (invited),
Philosophy Department (Ghent University).
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Catherine Herfeld
(2023):
What empirical network analysis can do for philosophy of science: The case of model transfer (invited),
IZWT Kolloquium (University of Wuppertal).
